alistairjcbrown

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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
Can't scroll down on my phone; dolphin browser on an S3. On top of the multiple certificate errors, it's not a great experience from such a major site...
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
"Your CV should be about three pages" - I had always been told, keep your CV to two pages, so you can print it on one sheet of paper (both sides). I like it as it ties back into the main message of these slides: "reading CVs
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
I was just about to comment this. Seems it's a pretty common misunderstanding. AFAIK the only way to know if someone's read your message is to assume based on their last time online.
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
I like that it shows the air which has hit the sail and then spilled off, or "dirty" air. It's a good indication of why you don't want to be sailing behind a boat you are trying to catch!
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New 2.0 software for Nest Protect(nest.com)
2 points by alistairjcbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
I was just thinking this; banks take their time to issue a new card. What're the odds that a new card was ready to go and posted (and that Royal Mail delivered it next day?) due to one questionable use?
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
It may be worth adding a section to your readme with the dependencies you use / how it works. I had a look at the code because I was curious about how Javascript could interact with the clipboard. I can see that you use "clipboard
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How will David Cameron's online music video classification system work?(theguardian.com)
4 points by alistairjcbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
That's a great analogy!
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
Interesting - I've had the Project Naptha ( http://projectnaptha.com/ ) Chrome extension installed without really looking under the hood. Turns out it has Ocrad.js and Tesseract as two engine options - it uses them to au
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
Looks like underscore character ("_") is used when the letter can't be determined - so in fact it had no idea what your "S" was ^_^
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
"helping others access content in ways that you have not been given permission" - That doesn't sound like what he did. The videos were uploaded to YouTube and he used the YouTube API to display those videos as part of his app
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
Eh? Did you read the post? "I wrote a simple YouTube client app using the latest YouTube APIs" - The content was not pirated, he created an app with one purpose; to allow you to play videos from one particular YouTube channel.
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Discover smappee, the world's most innovative energy monitor(smappee.com)
1 points by alistairjcbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
This is an awesome feature - not one you'll use every day, but one that's very convenient when you've made an oops.
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PHP 5.5.13 breaks backwards compatibility(trafex.nl)
1 points by alistairjcbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
Conceptually, is this an ATM or a vending machine?
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Work Cam – iOS Camera App for Dropbox and Google Drive(workcamapp.com)
2 points by alistairjcbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
Ah, thank you - I misunderstood the crucial piece "load AMD modules like ... they were native Node modules". I guess I can see the value in this, if you're retrofitting a new module in the AMD style to an existing node applic
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
+1 - this is why I love requirejs - lazy load modules in development, compile for QA and deployment. Update: My other love for requirejs is that you don't need to use relative paths when requiring a module. Once you have a relative pat
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
How does this differ from the requirejs module for Node? https://www.npmjs.org/package/requirejs
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
That's a bad idea - doing that shows intent to circumvent an intended block. See the last notable case "Craigslist v. 3Taps": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#No...
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by alistairjcbrown 12y ago
They really did nail that site - it feels very Google. Also, I'd love a Google Bee ^_^
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by alistairjcbrown 13y ago
IIRC Facebook creates three passwords to deal with character case issues; the one you enter, an inverted case version and a version with the first characters case inverted.
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Break: A Conference That Questions the Edges of Design(kickstarter.com)
2 points by alistairjcbrown 13y ago|0 comments
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by alistairjcbrown 13y ago
> I guess we’ve messed with the prototype too much, and JavaScript isn’t really convinced it’s still a proper number anymore. You're comparing a literal number with an object, which are not the same type. 2 === new Number(2) &
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by alistairjcbrown 13y ago
[Citation needed]
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by alistairjcbrown 13y ago
I write my resume / CV in HTML & CSS and have PhantomJS convert it to PDF. I found this gives great control and lets you style to your hearts content with whatever you can get off the web. Shameless plug - I build a basic setup wit
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by alistairjcbrown 13y ago
> it performs to the standards that are expected The company have said it doesn't - there is a potential that the device will not alert when smoke is detected because of a false positive when detecting waving. The feature actively a
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by alistairjcbrown 13y ago
- That my faith is slightly shaken; simple smoke detectors are tried and tested, this is a little more wildcard - That I've paid for a smoke detector that doesn't do the same as was advertised when I purchased it, - That Nest hav

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